AppStorey
AppStorey

A documentary

The true and untold story of history's greatest computer.

It's 1988. There's no web to surf. To buy software, you drive to a store called Egg Head. One black cube changed that — AppStorey tells the story first-hand, through the people who were there.

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Steve Jobs at a NeXTSTEP trade show, mid-conversation
Exhibit — NeXTMail, 1988

Hi, this is Steve Jobs.

Press play — make him talk →Playing — welcome to the NeXT World

“I want to welcome you to the NeXT World. We think you're going to love this computer — it's got the most advanced applications of any computer shipping today, and it's the first computer designed from scratch to be an interpersonal computer.”

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